This January, Pitzer College students returned from break to find a large, metal box implanted in concrete next to McConnell dining hall. In the top right corner, the inanimate object is personified to the passerby as they read its introduction, “Hello my name is Lizzie.” Pitzer’s Lizzie is the fourth
Author: Malcolm McCann
Insiders and Outsiders in the Outdoors
Comfort in a space is a privilege. Like many forms of privilege, it is left unobserved and overlooked by those who have it. People at the 5Cs feel comfortable in the spaces they can claim ownership over, and uncomfortable in spaces where they cannot. But those comfortable in a
A False Summit: The Pitfalls of Competition in Sport
When I was an elementary school kid, four feet tall with platinum blonde hair, I attended the Marcus Lewis Day Camp during my summers. I would board a yellow school bus and, an hour later, arrive in the vast land of Western Massachusetts to participate in classic American camp activities,
Good Things Come to Those Who Wait
One quiet evening, after binge-working all afternoon and forgoing the dining hall, I found myself drawn to the gathering place of the hungry, the gastronomic pride of Harvey Mudd College, my favorite spot to squander my flex dollars: the place known as Jay’s Place to the pizza cognoscenti, and the
Havoc Strikes at Pitzer’s “Office Space”
The 1999 film “Office Space” depicts the essential frustrations of cubicle life: the mundanity of the tasks, the meaningless of the work, and the existential threat of termination from a job that you hate but need. The main character, Peter Gibbons, lives an unsatisfactory life working for Initech, a